Location: Darkest Corners of the Mind

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The Faceless Apparitions of Vyolynce is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by That Guy with a fair hand, and renowned for its parental licensing program. Its hard-nosed, hard-working, intelligent population of 21.597 billion enjoy a sensible mix of personal and economic freedoms, while the political process is open and the people's right to vote held sacrosanct.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Law & Order, Education, and Healthcare. It meets every day to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Shadowlands. The average income tax rate is 16%. A powerhouse of a private sector is dominated by the Book Publishing industry.

Schoolchildren have twice-weekly sex education classes, murderers frequently escape punishment by claiming they were protecting their honour, cyber-crime and tin-foil hat sales are both increasing at record rates, and bicyclists are banned from major roads. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Vyolynce's national animal is the shadow, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its currency is the soul.

Vyolynce is ranked 2nd in Darkest Corners of the Mind and 97,248th in the world for Most Authoritarian, with 0.059 Stalins.

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NationStates by Max Barry, author of and